NASA: A Treasure Trove of Planets Found

NASA & TRAPPIST-1
A Treasure Trove of Planets Found

Published on Feb 22, 2017
Seven Earth-sized planets have been observed by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope around a tiny, nearby, ultra-cool dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1. Three of these planets are firmly in the habitable zone.

Over 21 days, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope measured the drop in light as each planet passed in front of the star. Spitzer was able to identify a total of seven rocky worlds, including three in the habitable zone, where liquid water might be found.

The video features interviews with Sean Carey, manager of the Spitzer Science Center, Caltech/IPAC; Nikole Lewis, James Webb Space Telescope project scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute; and Michaël Gillon, principal investigator, TRAPPIST, University of Liege, Belgium.

The system has been revealed through observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the ground-based TRAPPIST (TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope) telescope, as well as other ground-based observatories. The system was named for the TRAPPIST telescope.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at Caltech in Pasadena. Spacecraft operations are based at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Littleton, Colorado. Data are archived at the Infrared Science Archive housed at Caltech/IPAC. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. 

For more information about Spitzer, visit http://www.nasa.gov/spitzer and http://spitzer.caltech.edu

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Life...

Life

Brooklyn Museum Art School

Brooklyn Museum

Art School

This advertising poster produced for the Brooklyn Museum Art School in 1974 provided a humorous take on the dynamic between artists and models.
Drawing from the live model has a long tradition not only in the history of art, but also the at the Brooklyn Museum.
Dating back to 1841, BKM has provided hands-on art education by organizing drawing classes. 

A century later, Brooklyn Museum Art School opened as a non-degree professional school for artist.  

NOT  from the  Brooklyn Museum Art School

 

Jellyfish - Is it a UFO or a Jellyfish?

“Cosmic” Jellyfish

Is it a UFO or a Jellyfish?

Scientists Discover Unique Sea Creature

This stunningly beautiful jellyfish was seen during Dive 4 on April 24, 2016, while exploring the informally named “Enigma
Seamount” at a depth of ~3,700 meters.

Scientists identified this hydromedusa as belonging to the genus Crossota. Note the two sets of tentacles — short and long. At the beginning of the video, you’ll see that the long tentacles are even and extended outward and the bell is motionless. This suggests an ambush predation mode. Within the bell, the radial canals in red are connecting points for what looks like the gonads in bright yellow.

Video courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas.

It’s a UFO ― an underwater fishy object.

A jellyfish that looks amazingly like a flying saucer was recently filmed by a team of marine biologists from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

This “UFO” isn’t really unidentified. Its scientific name is rhopalonematid trachymedusa, a type of deep-sea jellyfish. It was filmed last week by scientists aboard the Okeanos Explorer, a NOAA ocean research ship now exploring the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa.

Watching the jellyfish move around the deep ocean can be a hypnotic experience.

The researchers who filmed the bizarre creature said the jellyfish has two sets of tentacles, one set facing upward and the other downward. The reason for this is unknown.

It's one of the most hostile places on Earth and extends seven miles (11km) below the waves at its deepest point, but the Mariana Trench is full of secrets. A deepwater exploration mission of the area has spotted beautiful, unknown jellyfish with two types of tentacles as well as a number of other bizarre animals just one week into the study. The orb-like jellyfish was spotted on a dive at a location named Engima Seamount at a depth of 12,139ft (3,700 metres). While experts were able to identify it as belonging to the genus Crossota, they are unable to assign a precise name to the pretty hydromedusa.

They filmed the jellyfish 'floating' through the depths with its long tentacles extended outwards and its bell motionless, suggesting 'an ambush predation mode'. It is thought the red colour in the bell is the creature's radial canals, while the bright yellow may be its gonads. The researchers believe this animal is an ambush predator which waits motionless for something to bumble into its tentacles. The jellyfish was filmed by experts aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) ship, Okeanos Explorer on April 24 using the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Deep Discoverer. Scientists nicknamed it 'Microsoft Paint', which looks like a resemblance to a jellyfish drawn in that program design.

They are in the process of collecting information about the poorly known deepwater areas in and around the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument (MTMNM) which protects approximately 95,216 square miles of submerged lands and waters.

It is close to the famous Mariana Trench, which measures 1,580 miles (2,550 km) long, with an average width of just 43 miles (69 km). The distance between the surface of the ocean and the trench's deepest point, the Challenger Deep is nearly seven miles (11 km). In the coming months, the researchers will explore deep habitats, new hydrothermal vent sites, mud volcanoes, deep-sea coral and sponge communities, and seamounts, as well as subduction zone and trench areas. It's hoped the information they collect until July will help improve our understanding of of the deep-ocean habitats of the Mariana archipelago.

Video snippets and snapshots - Credits: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas

Bizarre jellyfish is spotted in the depths of the Mariana Trench: Experts believe the orb-like creature may be an entirely new species caught on camera 12,000ft down in Pacific Ocean. Discovery of New Jellyfish Species In Mariana Trench Proves There Is Much To Know About The World’s Oceans. Scientists find surprising species of jellyfish near the Mariana Trench. 

Mysterious glowing jellyfish discovered near Mariana Trench. Jellyfish discovery highlights how little we know about Earth's oceans. Jellyfish Discovered in Mariana Trench Has Bizarre Neon Coloring. 

Amazing Jellyfish Discovered In Ocean Depths Looks Straight Out Of Sci-Fi. Newly discovered 'stunningly beautiful jellyfish' belongs to genus Crossota. Lovely GIF-looking Jellyfish; Massive Single-celled Amoeba Found in Mariana Trench. Alien Jellyfish Discovered By Deep Sea Scientists. Alien-like sea creature discovered 12,139-feet deep near Mariana Trench. Researchers capture video of unknown jellyfish. Jellyfish: April 24, 2016.

• Expedition website: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos...
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/oceanexp...
• Live feed till July 10, 2016 : http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos...
• Okeanos Explorer - Camera 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aXR-...
• Okeanos Explorer - Camera 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdWzZ...
• Okeanos Explorer - Camera 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31vNA...

Statue Surprise!

Statue Surprise!

Incredible reactions!!

Favorites #2

Favorites #4

To Know...

 

Earth Spinning 🌍Animation

Earth Spin Animation

Silent - 1 hr

This is not meant to be super photo-realistic nor physically correct.

Mars Spin Animation
Silent 1080p

🌍🌎🌏

Mars Spin Animation: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpjQ9aL8PLs

Real Earth: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUuDxHtFi0I

I made this for me to use it as a background animation but why not share it with all? 
Feel free to use it in your living room as a “screensaver” for example.
Lukas [kN]

Resources: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/

Animation Software: http://www.blender.org/

Earth From Space HD

               

Love in 💓 Venice

💓 Love in Venice 💕

This exhibition is part of Carnegie Hall’s citywide festival
La Serenissima: Music and Arts from the Venetian Republic

Open now
Ends August 26th, 2017

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building

 

A tolerant and secular state, the Venetian Republic originated in the lagoon communities around Venice and existed for half a millennium, from 1297 until 1797. 

 

Lovers and Chaperone Meeting on the Venetian Canal - Giacomo Mantegazza

Dominated by a merchant capitalist elite who did business through sea trade, the Republic of Venice enjoyed an autonomy and freedom that was not typical of the rest of Italy, and which for centuries made it a destination for love and pleasure.

Titled “Love in Venice,” the exhibition at The New York Public Library will examine the literary, artistic, musical and cultural aspects of Venice’s seductiveness, including its beautiful courtesans, lavish festivals, lively carnivals and libertine counter-culture. 

 

Casanova at dinner.
Watercolor by Auguste Leroux (1871-1954)
from the 1932 French edition of Casanova’s Histoire de ma Vie

On view will be works as diverse as the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, one of the most iconic works produced in Venice to explore ideas of desire, to flap books showing the undergarments of Venetian prostitutes, etchings by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, letters from Lord Byron’s paramours and examples of wedding poetry celebrating the unions of leading European families.

Braille and large-type versions of the information in the gallery are available at the info desk in Astor Hall.

https://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/love-venice

                            

Peace Space

Peace Space

Happy Valentine's Day to All !!

SNL Women Play Trump Administration :-)

SNL Women

Play Trump Administration

‘SNL’ Should Have Women Play Trump’s Entire Administration

So, Trump is supposedly upset that a woman played his White House press secretary on “Saturday Night Live” last weekend.

Politico is reporting that seeing Sean Spicer depicted by a thunderous Melissa McCarthy bothered the president so much, particularly because he “doesn’t like his people to look weak.” Spicer himself said that he thought McCarthy “could dial back” the impression. The impression clearly bothered them both. 

As a result, people have been excitedly starting to call for more women to play the men in Trump’s administration, hoping to further injure the president’s always sensitive ego, and maybe cause some behind-the-scenes drama.

Rosie O’Donnell, a longtime critic of the president, has already said she would be willing to play Trump adviser Steve Bannon if called upon by Lorne Michaels. 

To which we say: Why stop there? 

It’s time for “SNL” to throw the entire administration into a gigantic hissy fit by having women play them all. 

To help out the people over at “SNL,” we decided to do a bit of the casting work for them, just so they can think about it. Look, “SNL” can do what it wants. But if what it wants is to create an existential crisis at the White House, it should do this. 

Melissa McCarthy   as    Sean Spicer

 We already know this one is perfect
No need to explain why.

Rosie O’Donnell    as    Steve Bannon

 

Two things to ask yourself about these impressions: First, will the impression be funny? And second, will it irk the president and the people below him? 

In the case of Rosie O’Donnell playing President Steve Bannon, the answer on both counts is clearly yes.

It’s not hard to imagine Bannon throwing a whiskey against the wall of a dark room while watching Rosie impersonate him. 

Rachel Dratch   as    Reince Priebus

Have Rachel Dratch pull off a Debbie Downer-like character while impersonating White House Chief of Staff Reince Preibus. You already know that’s how things are going down between him and Bannon these days anyway. 

Kristen Wiig     as     Jared Kushner

This one just works. If you don’t get it, then I don’t know what to tell you, you unimaginative sack of garbage. 

Janeane Garofalo    as    Steven Mnuchin 

Janeane Garofalo’s first run at “SNL” didn’t go well at all. But a lot has changed on the show since the mid-1990s, and if there were ever a reason to bury the hatchet, this is it. Garofalo would make a hilarious Goldman-Sachs banker-turned-treasury-secretary. I also promise you that was the first time the words “hilarious Goldman-Sachs banker-turned-treasury-secretary” have ever been written. 

Betty White    as       Jeff Sessions

Because if we can get Jeff Sessions to hate Betty White, we can prove he hates everything. 

Ellen DeGeneres   as     Mike Pence

Vice President Mike Pence likes to play it cool. So it’s going to take something big, like Ellen DeGeneres agreeing to join “SNL,” to really ruffle the feathers of the anti-LGBT former Indiana governor. 

And of course...
Meryl Streep      as       Donald Trump

Not only did Meryl Streep rip into Trump at the Golden Globes. Not only did Trump prove it got under his skin when he responded by calling the actress “over-rated.” 

But Streep already played him last year in Central Park, so you know she’d be more than willing to do it again. Please do 

it again, Meryl. Please do it again. (Sorry, Alec.)

 Amy Poehler    as     Ivanka Trump

Christine Baranski      as       Betsy DeVos

Christine Baranski is offering to play Betsy DeVos on SNL

Sean Spicer Press Conference
(Melissa McCarthy)

SNL  VIDEO

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/snl-women-trump-administration_us_5899c922e4b040613138f6f9
 

Trump Was Reportedly 'Rattled' 

That a Woman Played Sean Spicer on 'Saturday Night Live'
By Ryan Bort On 2/7/17

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-upset-woman-played-spicer-saturday-night-live-553763